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<p>Dear all, <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Due to multiple requests, we have extended our
deadline for abstract submission a second time. Abstracts for
talks and posters can now be submitted via our conference
management system until <b>31<sup>st</sup></b><b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span> March
2020</b>. If you wish to do so, please go to <span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span><a
href="http://www.uni-erfurt.de/tagungen/DGKL_2020/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">www.uni-erfurt.de/tagungen/DGKL_2020/</span></a><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">, choose "Calls for
papers" and use the link to the abstract submission system
provided there. Notifications of acceptance will be postponed
accordingly and now go out by <b>1</b><b><sup>st</sup></b><b>
June 2020</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">We are proud and very happy to announce the
following confirmed plenary/keynote speakers:</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Ewa
Dąbrowska</i> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">(Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg), "The effects of literacy on grammar"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Dirk
Geeraerts</i> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">(KU Leuven), "Boons and Bournes of Cloud Chasing.
Recent developments in distributional corpus semantics"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Adele E.
Goldberg</i> (Princeton University), topic t.b.a.</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Irene
Mittelberg</i> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">(RWTH Aachen), "Cognitive semiotic theory as common
denominator for interdisciplinary, empirical gesture research"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Natalia
Levshina</i> (MPI Nijmegen), "Communicative efficiency:
Typological, corpus-based and experimental evidence" </span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Friedemann
Pulvermüller</i> (FU Berlin), "Neural assemblage and
decomposition in construction learning"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Sabine
Stoll</i> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">(UZH, University of Zurich), "</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">First language
acquisition: How to extract patterns from the linguistic
environment?"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Kristian
Tylén</i> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">(Aarhus University), "Language as shaped by the
environment"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- <i>Stefanie
Wulff</i> (University of Florida & UiT The Arctic
University of Norway): "Enjoying methods responsibly: in favor
of theory-driven methods selection"</span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Our pre-conference methods workshop "Classification
trees and random forests for linguistic data" will be given on
the 22nd of September by <i>Stefan Th. Gries</i> (University of
California at St. Barbara & University of Gießen). Please,
contact us, if you wish to participate.<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Please, visit us at </span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><a
href="http://www.uni-erfurt.de/tagungen/DGKL_2020/"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">www.uni-erfurt.de/tagungen/DGKL_2020/</span></a>
for further information and do not hesitate to use our
conference mail </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:DGKL2020@uni-erfurt.de"><DGKL2020@uni-erfurt.de></a>
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">or the link
to the conference office provided at our conference
website</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span>to </span></span>send us any more
specific queries. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></span><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Best wishes to everyone in the meantime, we hope to
see many of you in Erfurt,<br>
</span></p>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Beate Hampe (for
the local organisers) </span>
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Prof. Dr. Beate Hampe
Language and its Structure (esp. English linguistics)
Universität Erfurt, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft,
Nordhäuser Str. 63 MG1/ Zi 606
D-99089 ERFURT
Tel: 0361-737-4341
Fax: 0361-737-4329 </pre>
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